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Said General Jean Gilles: "We only pray they will attack us." The commander of Nasan waved his hand around the encircled battlefield: the dusty mile-long airstrip and the score of 500-ft. hills around it. Every hill and every valley was a network of barbed wire and dug-in strong points; with its 12,000 French troops, air-supplied by a constant shuttle of planes, Nasan was like a military anthill. French officers likened it to the classic French position at Verdun, the great turning-point battle of World...
...many years Littauer's broad policy approach has opposed the trade school approach up and down the battlefield of the public service, until, one by one, the country's other administration schools grudgingly adopted the Littauer method...
Flare-Lit Battlefield. There had been one mishap: a party of stragglers had appeared before the fortifications shouting, "Please open the fence." They had been let in, but behind them had charged a company of rubber-soled Viet Minh soldiers in French uniforms, throwing hand grenades into French bunkers. It had taken French paratroopers five hours to kill them out. Now the battlefield was continuously illuminated by flares...
...linen bedsheets, running water, which were unknown in their cold castles in Flanders and Normandy. They levied tolls on Arab traders, enjoyed Arab music, ate Arab food, and dressed themselves in turbans and burnooses when off-duty. But the climate was unhealthy for northerners, and men who survived the battlefield often succumbed to strange tropical diseases. Most Crusaders died young...
Collapsing Coalition. Despise was hardly the word. The Communists mortally hate and fear aging (68) Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, who in 1949, with U.S. help, defeated the Communists on the battlefield. Greece's No. 1 military hero (commander in chief of Greek forces in World War II) might long ago have been Greece's No. 1 political leader but for a personal quarrel with King Paul. His Greek Rally Party polled the largest number of seats in the last election, but the King snubbed the Field Marshal and handed the government to a coalition of Plastiras Progressives...